Disciplining English

Disciplining EnglishOffers historical and present day perspectives on what English departments do, and how and why they do it. These provocative essays explore the unwritten, often unacknowledged codes, conventions, and ideologies overseeing the evolution and current practice of English as a "discipline." The first section of the book offers historical perspectives: how "composition" became distinguished from "literature," how key intellectuals shaped the discipline, and

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creativity emerges as an attempt to illustrate the organic unity of the world without resorting to an appeal to a source for creativity beyond the concrete actuality of the cosmos

has been at the center of key European cultural and political questions

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founder of the Army Cadet Force

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part two of Thompson’s bestselling monumental history

concerns about victims of crime

This book explores not only John Dewey's relatively unknown contribution to this topic

everyday examples